I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.

quote by Story Musgrave
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Picasso Paint Screams

Pablo Picasso moments
painted Spanish Civil War screams
Guernica shows tragedies

poem by Terence George Craddock
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The End Of The Library

When the coal
Gave out, we began
Burning the books, one by one;
First the set
Of Bulwer-Lytton
And then the Walter Scott.
They gave a lot of warmth.
Toward the end, in
February, flames
Consumed the Greek
Tragedians and Baudelaire,
Proust, Robert Burton
And the Po-Chu-i. Ice
Thickened on the sills.
More for the sake of the cat,
We said, than for ourselves,
Who huddled, shivering,
Against the stove
All winter long.

poem by Weldon Kees
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Head On Collision

I've been waiting for a good day
I've been holding back long enough
I've been hurting to tell you some things
it's not the falling of the temperature
that's making all our bones run cool
it's the breeze you make
the presence felt when you're around me

and it feels like I'm at an all-time low
slightly bruised and broken
from our head on collision
I've never seen this side of you
another tragic case of feeling
bruised and broken
from our head on collision
I've never seen this side of you
another tragic case

and I'm still waiting for a good day
I think I've held this long enough

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song performed by New Found Glory from Sticks And Stones
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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

quote by Jean Racine
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I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

quote by Juliette Binoche
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

quote by Benjamin E. Mays
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Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.

quote by Brian Walker
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

quote by William Barclay
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

quote by Rafael Palmeiro
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

quote by Stephen Hawking
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Dark Tragedy Sought Soul Mate

dark tragedy is you sought soul mate
look at us you do not know me at all

compassion vacancy control lunacy
dark tragedy you never knew me at all

poem by Terence George Craddock
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

quote by Eddie Vedder
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

quote by Oscar Wilde
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

quote by Joyce Carol Oates
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Head On Collision (Acoustic)

I've been waiting for a good day
I've been holding back long enough
I've been hurting to tell you some things
it's not the falling of the temperature
that's making all our bones run cool
it's the breeze you make
the presence felt when you're around me
and it feels like I'm at an all-time low
slightly bruised and broken
from our head on collision
I've never seen this side of you
another tragic case of feeling
bruised and broken
from our head on collision
I've never seen this side of you
another tragic case
and I'm still waiting for a good day
I think I've held this long enough
I think it's safe to tell you some things
it's not just what you say to people

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song performed by New Found Glory
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

quote by Aaron Allston
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